Podcast: Learning to love the F word: Federalism

It's no longer synonymous with states' rights

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This ain’t your daddy’s federalism. Heather Gerkin of Yale Law School tries to convince Jimmy that even though federalism (or states’ rights) was used in the past to keep segregation in place, today it can be used to knock down discriminatory laws.

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